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JOHN STRONG ANDRElVS, OF MILLTOVVN, NE\V BRUNSlVICK, CANADA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,826, dated March 8, 1887.

Application filed October 11, 1886. Serial No. M11891. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN STRONG AN- DREWS, of Milltown, in the Province of New Brunswick, of the Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway-Oar Couplings; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in thefollowing specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal, median, and horizontal section, of two car-couplers of my improved kind in the positions in which they stand relatively to each other just before being coupled. Fig. 4 is a front end view of one of such couplers. Fig. 5 is a similar longitudinal and median section otthem as coupled.

In practice each coupler, when applied to the end of a car, should have its median horn projecting to the right or to the left relatively to a person when standing on the platform at such end, with his back toward the center of the car, in which case the cars, 011 coming to gether, will couple automatically.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

From the body A of each coupler there is extended, as shown, three curved horns, B

a direction the reverse of that of each of the others. In the body, directly in rear of the horn 0, there is a recess, D, and in the said horn, in advance of the said recess, is a springcateh, E, that slides laterallywithin the horn, and has its inner end angular or beveled, as shown at to. I11 this catch is a slot, 1), in which is placed a spiral spring, 0, which at one end bears against the inner end of the slot and at the other against a pin, (Z, going through the horn vertically thereof. A chain, c, connected to the catch at its outer end, serves to enable a person to draw the catch out of engagement with that of the other coupler. In advance of the catch there is within the median horn, O, a recess, f, a hole, g, being extended vertically through the horn and such recess, such being to enable the couplerv to be connected by a link projecting from a car and inserted in the reecssf and by a pin inserted in the hole 9 through the link. In rear of the catch and arranged with respect to it, as shown, are

. .l B, and C, the middle one, 0, being curved 1n two shoulders, 71, which, on the couplers being in engagement, butt against the shoulders of the other coupler, and with them serve as bunters. I

There projects from the rear end. of the body A an eye, 75, with which a link, Z, is coupled. Thislink extendsinto the end of tlhe draw-bar G, and is secured therein by a key, m, that goes transversely through both. A spiral spring, It, encompasses the eye and link and projects intoa recess, 0, in the end of the drawbar. By such a connection of the coupler with the draw-bar such coupler can swing or play upward or down ward, as well as sidewise, as occasion may require.

On one coupler being forced toward the other in order to couple or engage with it, the two horns B and B of it will be forced against the two horns B and B of the other, whereby the median horn, O, of each coupler will be caused to pass between the horns B and B of the other coupler, and the two catches E will be forced toward and into contact with each other,.and will be moved lengthwise in their horns until they (the said catches) may pass each other. Having so passed each other, they, by their springs, will be moved in opposite directions,so as to cause each catch to pass into the recess at the back of the other catch, thereby lockingthe two catches together and engaging both couplers. By pulling out wardly either catch sufficiently disengagement of the catches can be effected.

WVhile the spring renders the coupler flexible, the key m, arranged as represented, aids in preventing such coupler from turning or canting over to one side or the other.

These couplers will couple at the coming together of two cars, either end of each being foremost. They can be uncoupled at either side of the train without going on or between the cars. With this coupler a car can also be coupled with another by means of a link an its pins.

I claim 1. The car-coupler provided with the body A and three horns, B, O, and B, projecting therefrom, as set forth, and having within the body the recess D, and in advance thereof and in the median horn a spring-catch, E, all being arranged substantially as set forth.

2. The car-coupler provided with the body A and three horns, B, C, and B, projecting therefrom, as set forth, and having within the 4. The combination, with the coupler and i5 draw-bar, of the eye projecting from the former, the link ,extending through the said eye and into the draw-bar. the keygoing through the draw-bar and the link, and the spiral spring encompassing the eye and link 20 and extending from the coupler to the drawbar, all being substantially as set forth.

JOHN STRONG ANDREWS.

\Vitnesses:

ENooH B. HARVEY, GEO. R. GARDNER. 

